Monday, July 7, 2008

Tomorrow we go to clinic for a finger stick and a check on Hannah's foot. She is doing a bit better with it, but still can't walk on it, and it still hurts quite a bit. Hannah asked me today if she still had to have MRI's. Then she wanted to know if it was this month or next month or the next. Her next one should be the beginning of September, before school starts again. She said that was too soon. If it wasn't for the IV's she had to get for each MRI, I would like to have one once a month, just to be sure. Yesterday morning I let the girls sleep in, they woke up a bit after 10am. By that time I thought that we might as well try it without the anti nausea pill, and just go with the Zantac. I gave her that, and we came out only to run into the bathroom where she threw up. It was so reminiscent of the old days when she would wake up and run into the bathroom to throw up. Scary. So, I chucked the no pill idea and gave it to her. She was fine after that.

This morning she got up at 8am, took her pill and Zantac and got ready for her tutoring session at 9am. She started crying about 5 minutes into the math session, I think her tutor started off with something she thought Hannah already knew, but didn't have down pat. Hannah did well after that, she really likes Mrs. Tepfenhardt. Hannah asked me why she had to go to school if it was summer!

So, how did Hannah hurt her foot? On Friday morning, the 4th of July, Hannah jumped into the pool. I wasn't looking right at her at the time, but she started screaming in pain. She hasn't been able to walk on it since then. There is no obvious trauma, no bruising or swelling so I'm not sure exactly what's going on. The thought comes to mind that due to the low bone density from the osteopenia she may have broken it. It's her heel that hurts specifically. We'll most likely have an xray tomorrow at clinic, just to rule it out. Since we're going to be there anyway, it will be easy.

We are looking forward to seeing our friend Kaitlyn tomorrow-we haven't seen her and mom in such a long time! We are also going to stop by and see our friend Alec, who is inpatient at the moment, hopefully getting out tomorrow. We have 5 bags of toys and crafts to take in, as well as a very large bag of hats that Hannah bought to deliver. Colby is going with us tomorrow (she wasn't so excited about that) but Hannah is very happy about it! We leave at 6:30am!!

A few more Disney pictures...these are from Discovery Cove. It was my most favorite place during the trip. It is a very expensive place, but only a certain number of people are let in to swim with the dolphins (for only 1/2 hour!!!). The rest of the day is spent swimming in their pools, swimming with the stingrays and fish, riding the river and visiting the birds in the aviary. Everything was included for the day including breakfast, snacks, beer (it's an Anheiser Busch owned park), lunch, etc. That was very nice. They provided a beach wheelchair for Hannah-and she loved it. She didn't allow anyone else to ride in it, and it really helped a lot with getting around during the day. I would highly recommend it (just save up first.) I'll post some of the dolphin pictures from our day tomorrow.

♥♥♥ Kim ♥♥♥